Funny Flatmate Stories

As I mentioned yesterday, my flatmate Z moved out. She had told me more than a month ago she would be leaving and well, I’d started looking for new flatmates. I’ve been doing this for a while now. 5 years on the ‘Looking for a flatmate’ and prior to that, ‘Looking for accommodation’. In this time, I’ve come across some funny ads and some weird people. And I’ve lived with some weirdos too. I thought I’d share some of my funny flatmate stories —both ads and experiences — for some laughs:

1. Free accommodation: I remember when I was looking for accommodation back in 2009, I came across an ad that said something along these lines

“Free accommodation available in one-bedroom apartment. Close to beach, public transport and shops. Looking for a female to share with one mature male.”

Umm, free my ass!

2. Crazy religious flatmate: I’ve spoken about my flatmate L previously. She was the one who introduced herself with her religion. Which I have since learnt to take as a major WARNING SIGN! I was naive back then. I have no issues if people want to be religious but there’s a point when you start to wonder if it is a cult more than a religion…

3. Opera singers: My flatmate M was quite all right in many ways but there was one hobby she had — she was an opera singer at a local community group. Which is great for her. But it also meant she had to practise. I had friends over one night for board games and all of a sudden without warning around 8 pm or so, M broke into opera practice in her room startling my friends who didn’t know whether to laugh or not. In M‘s defence, she was a good singer. It was just amusing though!

4. Crazy cat people: Surprisingly, it’s not me. This time around when I was looking, I had one guy contact me saying he loved cats. His profile was pretty much about how much he loved cats. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and had him come to view the place when Z was around. {I made sure she was home!}. He came in, introduced himself and then pretty much launched himself at my cats who come to the door most times. He freaked out poor Pebbles and managed to even get Buttons annoyed. And Buttons usually loves everyone — he rolls over for tradies to scratch his stomach! There were other things about this guy that put me off too and I just didn’t feel comfortable with him. He apparently would be spending a lot of time at home due to studying via correspondence and thought that was a selling point in terms of spending time with the cats. Umm…no, thank you!

 

5. Dating, not house-sharing: Usually when you advertise that you have a place available for sharing, you put up photos of the accommodation — you know, the room, the lounge room and bits and pieces like that. Sometimes, people who are looking for accommodation tend to have their photos up so the person can get an idea I suppose. Anyway, this time around, I contacted a few people and one guy replied back to me asking me for my Facebook or LinkedIn profile and that he would send me his in return. I was a bit suss as to why he wanted it and figured I’d send my LinkedIn thinking he might want to see if I’m a professional {as he was one}. Turns out, if you are not my connection on LinkedIn, you don’t see my photo. He replied back with this:

Sorry to be difficult, could you please send a picture. A bit straight forward of me asking but I don’t want to waste your time viewing the room if we are not of some simalarity. Hope that is not too offensive 🙂

I lost my shit. I couldn’t tell if he was implying a culture clash or if he thought he was on a dating website. Either way, I figured I wasn’t interested. I replied back saying I wasn’t keen on pursuing this further and that you couldn’t tell if someone is ‘similar’ to you unless and until you meet them!

I have had a lot more weird flatmates. Like the crazy bitch during my final year at uni who threatened to delete my assignment for no reason and who later punched her partner in the face after a fight or the neat freak pilot dude who didn’t like me leaving a coffee cup in the sink in the morning.

Honestly, I could write a book on them!

Have you had any funny or weird house-sharing experiences?

Do share!!

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Until next time,

Cheers!!!